ASTM STP 1438 Stainless Steels for Medical and Surgical Applications
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This publication, Stainless Steels for Medical and Surgical Applications, contains all the papers presented at the symposium of the same name held May, 2002. The symposium was sponsored by ASTM Committee F04 on Medical and Surgical Materials and Devices.
The symposium undertook to bring together current research and development, recent clinical experience, and the substantial history of stainless steels in medical applications. The purpose of the symposium was to bring the attendees and participants of the symposium up to date on the current status of the latest technologies and to provide the most current information.
This STP addresses some of the issues in the medical uses of stainless steels, such as
- corrosion
- wear
- biological response
- radiopacity
- the high cost of medical products
New alloys are discussed in some of the papers as solutions to some of these issues by offering more biocompatible, higher quality, radiopaque, or low cost alternatives for orthopaedic implants and stents. Several corrosion papers address this key concern for all medical devices. Some of the papers offer creative options for this field. Finally, there are other papers that deal with such timely issues as injuries due to the interaction of implants and MRI examinations.
This symposium covered a wide range of topics on stainless steels, with most of the presentations dealing with narrow segments of a specific topic. A single theme of the presentations was that work on stainless steels for medical uses continues and that stainless steels may be part of the answers for some of the issues facing the surgical community today, such as biological response, corrosion resistance, mechanical performance, quality, and cost.
Specific topics covered by papers in this collection include:
- anodic polarization
- galvanic corrosion
- low-nickel stainless steel
- 316LS
- 22Cr-13Ni-5Mn Stainless Steel
- fatigue behavior
- in-vitro biocompatibility
- Ni-free austenitic high-nitrogen steel
- martensitic stainless steel
- surgical instruments
- macrophage cells
- notch sensitivity
- stress corrosion cracking
- Platinum-Enhanced Radiopaque Stainless Steel (PERSS)
- wear-induced corrosion
- orthopaedic implant materials
- mechanically assisted crevice corrosion
- quality
- fatigue of small bone fragment fixation plates
If you are engaged in the development of stainless steels for implant applications, or instrument applications, purchase this STP to access this significant information. The publication will also be of interest to other individuals, who are developing, making, or using implantable medical devices and/or surgical instruments in general. This publication may make both of these groups aware of alloys, testing, or applications that they had not previously considered.